British Citizen Charged With Hacking Into US Naval Weapons Station
Poster: doily
Posted on November 15, 2002 at 3:26:21 AM
Gary McKinnon, who lives in London, was charged with three counts of hacking into Earle Naval Weapons Station. The Naval Station supplies ammunition to the Atlantic Fleet of the US Navy. From his three attacks, he reportedly caused $900,000 worth of damage and on his last intrusion McKinnon deleted files from certain computers. Wow, makes you feel real safe.
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" This was a grave intrusion into a vital military system computer system at a time when we, as a nation, had to summon all of our defenses against further attack. Online vandals have often used military systems as hacking targets. The Pentagon, for example, has cited as many as 250,000 attacks in a single year. The attacks do succeed, on occasion"